Asia Cup 2023: India's Batting Pairs In Practice Ahead Of Pakistan Game Out. It's Virat Kohli And...

26.08.2023 - 12:49 sports.ndtv.com

The Indian cricket team is currently gearing up for the upcoming Asia Cup 2023 with a practice camp in Alur, Karnataka and the team management decided to pair up the batters for match simulation.

The selectors have gone with a number of specialist batters for the competition and questions still remain over how the batting line-up can look like when India take on Pakistan in their tournament opener on September 2.

According to Cricbuzz, skipper Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill were the first batters to face the bowlers before the pair of Virat Kohli and Shreyas Iyer took the crease.

After the duo, KL Rahul and Suryakumar Yadav came to the crease and faced the bowling from their teammates. The pairing of Shreyas with Kohli is extremely interesting as the debate over the No.

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Virat Kohli missed an absolute sitter as the Indian cricket team's fielding left fans disappointed during the Asia Cup 2023 match against Nepal on Monday. In the second over of the match, Aasif Sheikh played a loose shot off Mohammed Siraj and the ball went straight towards Kohli at cover point. It was an easy catch but Kohli made a complete mess of it as the ball bounced out of his hands. On the last ball of the first over, Shreyas Iyer also missed a somewhat easy catch at the slips. Nepal were off to a good start as India struggled to hold on to the catches and a couple of overs later, another opportunity was put down when Ishan Kishan misjudged a catching attempt behind the stumps.

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Shaheen Afridi was the top performer for Pakistan during the Asia Cup 2023 match against India as he took the important wickets of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli. The Babar Azam-led side was off to a brilliant start as Indian batters found it hard to play the pace bowling from Shaheen and Naseem Shah. The overcast conditions at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium was extremely conducive for their style of bowling and it resulted in both Rohit and Virat failing to score big. One moment that has gone viral on social media saw Kohli giving a stunned reaction as Rohit was beaten by a delivery from Shaheen.